Time mag to Nikki Haley: So, do you give Sikh taxi drivers bigger tips or what?

posted at 8:18 pm on April 5, 2012 by Allahpundit

Via GOP12, if you want to watch only the 13-second question and answer about cab drivers you can head over to Weasel Zippers, but I recommend skipping to about 4:45 here and letting it play from there instead. You can’t fully appreciate how out of left field this comment is without viewing it within the context of a standard boring political interview. Haley actually handles it amazingly well; I would have been dumbfounded. Note to Marion Barry: Good news — you’re guilty of only the second-worst stereotyping in American politics this Thursday.

Comments

kurtzz3 on April 5, 2012 at 9:28 PM
Reposting so my message isn’t lost in my ham-fisted editing….

That reporter (?) doesn’t stereotype much does she!

Nikki laughed through gritted teeth. Good for her. Me? I would have put on my best overthetop Simpsons-Apu accent and done some quicki-mart joke. Follow that with a snide “You know, you surprise me. For a Limey, your teeth aren’t ALL rotten and crooked”.

Why do Republicans give interviews to these nutballs? Just stop, please.

We keep feeding this syphilitic, rabies-drooling, insane liberal media beast. Why? Do we have a death wish ourselves?

Let the liberal media die, because not matter what arises in its stead, it will be better than what we have now.

slickwillie2001 on April 5, 2012 at 9:10 PM

Exactly the WRONG thing to do; but I understand your feelings.

No battle or war in human history has ever been won by retreating or at the so called “Peace Table”.

Meet these sloped fore-headed ninnies on the field, but fight them just like they do us…within reason.

Ridicule their “ideas” and their propaganda with the truth…show the so called “Moderates” what pompous twaddle they try to spoon-feed the Republic.

If we learned nothing else from Brietbart, we better learn that.

BlaxPac on April 5, 2012 at 9:17 PM

No, a boycott is in no way a surrender. Republicans need to only give interviews to fair media outlets, as few as there are. By supporting them, they will gain viewers and grow more powerful. More will arise if we give them a niche.

It’s very naive to hope that somehow you will be the one to finally convince a liberal journalist (or a troll) of the value of conservatism. These people are hardcore proggies, and as good as you might be, they won’t let that message get out.

Breitbart started his own media outlets because he knew the liberal media were unreachable.

Its just as important though to reach those that minds that we know are on the fence.

Not worried about changing the reporters: That in itself 90% of the time is a lost cause…but even if we can change the mind of a few, or at least show them we’re not afraid to meet them on their home ground, and still whip their as*.

If this dim witted Brit were to ask Obama, “There are a lot of Black taxi drivers in NYC do you tip them more?”, what do you think his response would be? Here green card would be revoked and she would be on the evening flight to Heathrow. Why oh why do our people think they are going to get a fair interview? And to the person who said that it gets our message out to the libs. No it doesn’t. It just solidifies their opinion that we are stupid.

One of the strange advantages of the media being entirely left wing loons, proud of their ignorance and so knowledgeable about other cultures, is that normal people can be entertained by these dimwits?
Does she tip white idiots more?

Nikki skirted, almost said, but skirted the “you have already made up your mind”.
I wish all Republican candidates would understand that they can say “I understand your liberal views, can you step out of that mindset and be a journalist?”…or “You seem bent on asking all the questions from a liberal view point, do you have any other?”…”You seem very defensive regarding your liberal views, I thought I was being interviewed by a professional journalist”…any way just to show that the candidate understands, and they are not fooled by the “journalists” gotcha questions.
But Nikki is awesome, and the lib was nervous as seen by her head twitching…

Time mag to Nikki Haley: So, do you give Sikh taxi drivers bigger tips or what?

Time mag to Nikki Haley, more:
1. Say, aren’t you supposed to have some kind of dot in the middle of your forehead?
2. Did you have that dot-thingee removed so you’d look ‘American’?
3. Have you signed a executive order as Governor making cows sacred in South Carolina?
4. What do you think of the Trevor Martin case?

The condescension from that Time Editor, Belinda Luscombe, was some of the worst I’ve seen in some time. Watch the interview and listen to the way she says things (“women vote wives??”). Very Mean Girls. Very Leftist.

There’s something more going on here with the hostility toward Haley in that interview. It seemed almost personal on the part of the interviewer.

Time mag to Nikki Haley, more:
1. Say, aren’t you supposed to have some kind of dot in the middle of your forehead?
2. Did you have that dot-thingee removed so you’d look ‘American’?
3. Have you signed a executive order as Governor making cows sacred in South Carolina?
4. What do you think of the Trevor Martin case?

olesparkie on April 6, 2012 at 9:45 AM

Hahah…More Belinda Luscombe questions —

1. So, 7/11 — do you own one? And what type of slurpees are you into?
2. Why don’t you wear a turban? Are you ashamed of your culture?
3. Jesus versus Shiva — Who wins?
4. Have you ever hooked up with Deepak Chopra?